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They describe this as a third-generation vehicle, but it still requires multiple human-driver interventions over a single journey. How many more generations to reach reliable true autonomy?
Real Soon Now
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The biggest problem human drivers have in winter weather is simply driving too fast. Self-driving cars won't get impatient and will presumably never exceed safe speeds for given conditions.
The biggest problem computer drivers have in winter weather is not being able to see lane markers. Humans are (for now) still better at figuring out where the lane is. Presumably this problem can be solved with improvements in maps, cameras, and image recognition algorithms.
I wonder if everything you say & do is recorded in these? The car has all those cameras covering the outside of the vehicle, it would be little effort to add another inside, and I doubt Uber will be able to resist. Uber could claim they need to record passengers in order to spot damage or dirtying of the cab. (Otherwise passengers could blame any damage on the previous occupant.)
Uber's product is the company's stock. All of their "AI" and "self-driving" stunts so far have been transparent hype fuel that anyone with the slightest domain knowledge knows have no practical significance. Their PR department are, as can be expected, top notch though. I especially like how they put a populist spin on their announcements, like the beer delivery (yay, beer!) and now picking up passengers with their p…
Is this a voluntary thing? Do I get a discount to sit in those? I would at the very least want to know in advance that an autonomous car is going to pick me up so if I want I can reject it if I want to and not waste time.
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The biggest problem computer drivers have in winter weather is not being able to see lane markers. Humans are (for now) still better at figuring out where the lane is. Presumably this problem can be solved with improvements in maps, cameras, and image recognition algorithms.
Humans do an unbelievably bad job at this, too, like all other tasks behind the wheel. Humans essentially just follow the tracks of the last car, creating ad hoc lanes. Computers can do this just as well.
Bit of a conspiracy theory sort of question, but... is there any reason to believe that maybe self-driving car technology is being backed by the military-industrial complex as a way to run R&D for military automation and related technologies? That could explain why there was a sudden spike in interest in this technology several years ago, and it could also explain why enormous amounts of hype are continually being ge…
Interesting. The US Military did spawn the self-driving Car Revolution with their DARPA Challange.
http://www.livescience.com/44272-darpa-self-driving-car-revo...